NCAA honors Bridgewater State Univ. as LGBTQ Athletics Dept. of the Year
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has recognized the Bay State's own Bridgewater State University's athletics department as its Division III LGBTQ Athletics Department of the Year.
In their...
Boston University administration to open LGBTQ+ student resource center
In response to a student task force report showing nearly 80 percent of LGBTQ students felt "some level of unwelcome" at Boston University, the school's administration is creating a professionally staffed LGBTQIA+...
Block Island students forming their school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance
The Block Island School, the K–12 public school for the year-round community just off the Rhode Island mainland, has given their students the go-ahead to form the school's first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)...
UMaine’s Rainbow Resource Center is still providing support and resources to LGBTQ students online
Its annual drag show in April may be canceled, but the University of Maine's Rainbow Resource Center is still providing support and resources for all U of M students via social media...
NH state senate passes bill to make teachers out students to parents
The New Hampshire’s state senate has passed a bill that would force teachers to out LGBTQ students to their parents, even when the news could potentially lead to abusive situations at home....
Mass. SJC affirms college faculty not exempt from anti-discrimination laws
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously struck down the claim of a Christian college in Wenham, Mass. that maintained it has the right, on religious grounds, to discriminate against a faculty member...
UNH law students walkout over anti-trans messages from campus groups
To protest recent transphobic messaging from two on-campus groups at the University of New Hampshire, students at the school's Franklin Pierce School of Law staged a walkout and rally with more than 100...
Speaking out against bullying, gay high school senior harassed at Franklin, MA school committee...
An openly gay high school senior speaking out against homophobic harassment and bullying was herself harassed by a member of the audience at a school committee meeting in Franklin, Massachusetts last week....
Judge rules against workplace discrimination on religious grounds
Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp ruled in favor of former longtime Gordon College Professor Margie DeWeese-Boyd, who claimed the school denied her promotion because of her "outspoken support for LGBTQ students...
NH gov. vows to veto bill that would force teachers to out students
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has pledged to veto legislation, recently passed by the state’s senate, that would force teachers to out LGBTQ students to their parents, even when the news could...
